Module: ROXML::CoreExtensions::String::Conversions

Included in:
String
Defined in:
lib/roxml/extensions/string/conversions.rb

Overview

Extension of String class to handle conversion from/to UTF-8/ISO-8869-1

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#to_latin ⇒ Object

Convert this string to iso-8850-1



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# File 'lib/roxml/extensions/string/conversions.rb', line 24

def to_latin
  begin
    Iconv.new("iso-8859-1", "utf-8").iconv(to_s)
  rescue Iconv::IllegalSequence
    STDERR << "!! Failed converting from ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 (#{self}). Already the right charset?"
    self
  end
end

#to_utf ⇒ Object

Return an utf-8 representation of this string.



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# File 'lib/roxml/extensions/string/conversions.rb', line 12

def to_utf
  begin
    Iconv.new("utf-8", "iso-8859-1").iconv(to_s)
  rescue Iconv::IllegalSequence
    STDERR << "!! Failed converting from UTF-8 -> ISO-8859-1 (#{self}). Already the right charset?"
    self
  end
end